Wile Out

Materials: Wood, screws, 4 days, paint, chalk. 2013.

Wile Out is a work seeking to explore the spaces between; that space which can be perceived within or linking two possibly disparate entities. Amidst the work’s title and the object itself, lie a vast space of different conclusions, connections and contradictions – the object being a reference to Wile E. Coyote and The Roadrunner [1] cartoons while the title is an English language colloquialism (speaking of going all out, getting crazy, being loud and possibly becoming violent) originally from the language of surfers of 1950’s California but has become more common in recent years for hip-hop communities [2] and at the same time it also points back to the coyote character’s name.

But it’s not just the title/object relationship which points to this grey area: The installation’s context or more specifically the relationship of the object’s references (American pop culture, 1949-present) in relation to the history of the space (previously a Soviet electronics factory) leaves something interesting to question…and if you point to the previous incarnation of the space then you must admit its current manifestation, a culture factory…then of course there is the vague position the work has to occupy as an installation; since it lies between a painting, a drawing and a monumental sculpture, we can neither define nor deny it as any of the above…if you bring up the object then you have to also look at the architecture of it which creates a space between… the design of the installation also suggests some dynamic action leaving a space between the unfulfilled and the potential for fulfilling an event. The work, its associations, context, structure and implications all seek to bookend something which is altogether more interesting than that which attempts to contain “it”.

It’s the dark matter between celestial objects, the words between parentheses, the emptiness between electrons…or maybe the most accurate, but long-winded, description is that the work tries to create a physical embodiment examining that indefinable area which intervenes amid illogical associations.